The Importance Of Family In Nursing

“Everyone needs a house to live in, but a supportive family is what builds a home.”
- Anthony Liccione

There are different families in the world. There are some which lives in good houses, while there are also families who lives together in only one room house. The family molds the character of the person and thus, it empowers the person’s mind and body, making it a very essential factor for human development. Differences in families shows in terms of financial, cultural, social, and many other facets, but what is common among them is that the people who call it a family are making clear that those people are important in some way to the person calling them his family.

In the nursing profession, interest in the family unit and its impact on the health, values, and productivity of individual family members is expressed by family-centered nursing: nursing that considers the health of the family as a unit in addition to the health of individual family members. The nurse should assess and plan health care for three types of clients: the individual, the family, and the community. The nursing profession opens a wide array of roles for a nurse and there are a lot to choose from. A nurse is considered a manager, a leader, a counselor, client advocate, communicator, caregiver, teacher, research consumer, anesthetist, nurse …show more content…
The members of the family may also be in need of promoting mental health because based from the ocular inspection done by the group, the student-nurses were able to identify problems like, environmental problems affecting the family. Mental in the sense that the children of the chosen family will be aware of the dangers affecting the children and the environment that surrounds